Best New Artist is a Grammy Award nomination that has spotlighted major rap and R&B talent. Several nominees, including SZA and Jazmine Sullivan, didn’t win but still made lasting cultural impact. The ...

(AP) Grammy-award hip hop artist Common, who has openly worried about the violence in Chicago, was in his hometown Friday to help celebrate the city’s music scene when he was confronted with a brutal ...

Will Smith has done just about every kind of press junket and media appearance imaginable, but last month he made one of the odder stops in his career. As part of the push for Based on a True Story, ...

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them got ...

A Guatemalan artist dips her brush into crimson red paint, the color of the rising sun in Maya tradition, as she paints a mural as big as two parked cars. A 26-year-old rapper from Bolivia brings his ...

This photo provided by Kelvin Worthey Jr. shows Christian rapper Childlike CiCi performing on Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Kelvin Worthey Jr./Kashvision Multimedia & Broadcasting LLC via AP.) Listen A new ...